All Children's Book Reviews
Welcome to Children's Book Reviews where Janice DeLong and Rachel Schwedt offer a fresh approach to the evaluation of titles written for children and young adults. Both Rachel and Janice are authors, teachers, mothers, and grandmothers who have been enthusiastically involved with children's literature for a combination of over fifty years. This association has resulted in the reading of thousands of books and an acquaintance with authors from Alcott to Zelinsky. It is their passion to promote books which will entertain as well as build the character of children who read. That driving desire has led to the creation of this web site.
Look for new reviews to be submitted each month that will provide guidance for teachers, parents, and guardians to the thousands of titles published each year for children and young adults.
Submissions from 2012
Review: Alphabet Under Construction, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Elsie’s Bird, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: I Can Be Anything, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Mary Englebreit's Nursery Tales, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Mercy Watson to the Rescue, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: One Leaf Rides the Wind, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Stranger in the Woods, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Sylvia Jean: Scout Supreme, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Thanks for Thanksgiving, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: The Berenstain Bears Show God's Love, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: The Lion & The Mouse, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Submissions from 2010
Review: A Faraway Island, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: A Week in the Woods, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Frindle, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Hate That Cat, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Isle of Swords, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Reaching for the Sun, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: The Pocket Daring Book for Girl’s: Wisdom and Wonder, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Submissions from 2009
Review: The King Raven Trilogy, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: The Wilderking Trilogy, Janice A. DeLong and Rachel Schwedt
Review: Abe’s Honest Words, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: After Tupac & D. Foster, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Are You Ready to Play Outside?, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Chicken Said, "Cluck", Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Declaration of Independence, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Emily Climbs, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: How I Learned Geography, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Isle of Swords, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Out of the Dust, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Savvy, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: The Graveyard Book, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: The Underneath, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
Review: We the People: The Story of our Constitution, Rachel Schwedt and Janice A. DeLong
